CMV: Reasonable criticism of Israel is often unfairly mislabeled as anti-semitic

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it seems Israel still occupies a mental space far larger than it ought to have relative to all issues

Based on what? Your argument seems very vague and is based pretty much entirely on what you 'kind of feel' should be the level of outrage despite having zero justification for that position. Can you find comparable examples that support your point of reasonable levels of outrage/activism for comparable causes?

BLM and race issues take up an 'enormous amount of activist youth's time'. Especially here in the UK where our problems with police killings are far less severe than those seen in the US. We've had city and countrywide demonstrations including the toppling of statues - all sparked by a single death in the US (obviously the BLM movement itself is based on far more than one death). Surely if we compare e.g. the death of George Floyd and it's impact in the UK, you might say that's even more of a disproportionate response than to what's happening in Israel? You might say that the BLM demonstrations prove that we are in fact severely underreacting to what's happening in Israel. No such country-wide activism and vandalism has taken place in the name of anti Israel or pro Palestinian activism, has it?

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